"If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money."
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"Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me."
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"What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?"
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"God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses"
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"This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life."
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"You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!"
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"Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else."
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"If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
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"Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress"
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"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
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"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think."
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"Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge."
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"You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines."
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"The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress."
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"Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy"
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"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?""
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"Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady."
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"The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires."
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"It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit."
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"All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films."
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